We Support BAM FI

We support this foundation because of the service they provide to the families of missing African Americans. While watching The View this morning, we first learned of this remarkable non-profit organization. Last week Friday, a family pleaded with America on the show, to assist in finding their daughter who was missing for five and a half months. Within fifteen minutes, the Co-founder of this group was contacted anonymously on the whereabouts of this missing child. The family was reunited with their daughter within twenty-fours. This story gives us hope and it reminds us that prayers are answered. Within the last couple weeks, many kids have looked evil dead in the face. However, there are so many resources in place to help reduce the number of kidnapped/missing people. Letting us know that Goodness prevails. A nine-year old girl was able to escape her kidnapper and call the police and a seven year old girl fights her kidnapper at an Atlanta Wal-Mart. This is GREAT news.

SSE, Inc. will do our part by tweeting about the cases and informing our audience of the issues that plague our world.

Photo Courtesy of BAM FI Blogsite

Black and Missing Foundation, Inc (BAM FI) has been established as a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring awareness to missing persons of color; provide vital resources and tools to missing person's families and friends and to educate the minority community on personal safety.

Founded in 2008 by a veteran law-enforcement official and public relations specialist, BAM FI will create public awareness campaigns for public safety and provide parents and loved ones of missing persons with a forum for spreading the word of their disappearance, with pictures and profiles of missing individuals. BAM FI will use a variety of media, including print, television, and the internet, to help locate missing persons of color for this severely underserved population.

BAM FI is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

Message from President/CEO (Derrica Wilson)
"For many years, the minority community has been a severely underserved portion of the population in the media mainstream when it comes to missing persons. BAM's mission is to ensure that missing persons of color receive the exposure needed to be reunited with their loved ones. We are dedicated to getting these cases to the media mainstream by "BECOMING THE VOICE FOR THE MISSING!"

Breaking the Chains of Habits and your B.S.

Watch your thoughts; they become words; watch your words; they become habits... -Frank Outlaw

I was talking with one of my sisters (through of course Sisters Striving for Excellence, Inc.-- the best women organization in the world!) about the reality TV show phenomenon. We both were caught up in the hype and would have long discussions about who's team we were on (Team Chrissy or Team Yandy--Love & Hip Hop; Team Nene or Team Sheree--RHOA, etc.). But this time around we both, unknowingly, decided to truly focus on our personal initiatives, goals, and vision for 2012. So the reality TV shows are taking a back seat!

We both unconsciously decided that we are breaking habits that are not productive or is not revealing positive results. Have you sat back and thought about the many things that you are doing that does not yield you the results that you are expecting? Through my meditation in prayer this am, I was forced to really think about this:

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." -Samuel Johnson

When you are constantly thinking about your spiritual, mental, and emotional growth, you are always examining your habits. Chains are tough to cut as habits are tough to break. Change your thoughts and begin with new habits that grow a healthy you. So this where what you believe seep into your habits Your B.S. assist with the direction your life goes...and we all know that you can only move forward or backward...

Photo courtesy of ahmedbilal.com

Check out your own B.S. -Jewel Diamond Taylor

B.S. refers to Belief System---those things you hold to be true about yourself and others.
Your B.S. is a product of your experiences and perceptions.
Those things you have come to believe are true.
Those things buried in the back of your mind. But are they really buried?

No!

Your belief system determines your environment, your abilities and the way you approach life's experiences.
What do you really believe about yourself?
What do you belief about your ability to have, to be and to do all the things you hold dear in your heart?
If you really want to know what you believe, take a look at the people, conditions and situations in your immediate environment. (Look at what you allow to enter into your spirit and soul. What you listen to, read, and watch, all play a dynamic role. -TNG)

They are the reflection of your own B.S.

Iyanla Vanzant
Acts of Faith - January 25

New York Times wants to hear from you...

Were you an intern at some point in your career? The New York Times wants to hear from you. Inspired by the Devil Wears Prada-like saga of a woman who is suing Harper's Bazaar because her internship there was so humiliating, the Times is searching for great stories from former interns. Editors are welcoming stories of hardship in the publishing world and elsewhere. But they also want positive stories, so pitch those if you have them. Click here for info.

Congratulations to our 2012 SiStErs!!!!

We send out butterfly hugs to our twenty-two NEW SiStErs!!!!!

Our History Highlight:: Nannie Helen Burroughs

Weekly we will be paying homage to Our history month! Today we bring recognition to:

Nannie Helen Burroughs, (May 2, 1879 – May 20, 1961) was an African American educator, orator, religious leader, and businesswoman.^[1] She gained national recognition for her 1900 speech "How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping," at the National Baptist Convention.

In 1896, Burroughs helped establish the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). In 1897, Burroughs started work as an associate editor at the Christian Banner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[1]
In 1900, Burroughs moved to Louisville, Kentucky, to work as a secretary for the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention. This was the national association of black Baptist churches. After the American Civil War, black congregations quickly withdrew from white-dominated churches to create churches independent of white supervision. They had a few at that time, but soon had many more. Within several years, they were setting up state Baptist associations and, by the end of the 19th century, national associations. This is still the largest black Baptist denomination.
In 1909, Burroughs founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, D.C. After her death, in 1976 it was renamed the Nannie Helen Burroughs School in her honor, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The school emphasized preparing students for employment. Burroughs offered courses in domestic science and secretarial skills, but also in unconventional occupations such as shoe repair, barbering, and gardening. Burroughs created a creed of racial self-help through her program of the three Bs: the Bible, the bath, and the broom. The Bible, the bath, and the broom stood for a clean life, a clean body, and a clean house.^[2]
Burroughs believed domestic work should be professionalized and unionized. She trained her students to be respectable employees by becoming pious, pure, and domestic She founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, DC in 1909. It has since been renamed the Nannie Helen Burroughs School in her honor and provides education for the elementary grades.
, but not submissive. She emphasized the importance of being proud black women to all students, by teaching African-American history and culture through a required course in the Department of Negro History.^[3] She became active in the National League of Republican Colored Women, and the National Association of Wage Earners, working to influence legislation related to wages for domestic workers and other positions held by women.^[4]

In 1931, the Herbert Hoover administration appointed her as committee chairwomen concerning Negro Housing, for his White House Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. This was in the early years of the Great Depression.^[5]

Burroughs died in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 1961.

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